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Wilderness Committee to State Opposition at Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings
Media Advisory - January 14, 2013 VANCOUVER – As joint review panel hearings begin in Vancouver this week regarding...
Letters call for ban on peat mining in Manitoba
On Wednesday morning, the Wilderness Committee delivered 830 letters to Manitoba Minister of Conservation Gord...
Wilderness Committee Calls for Provincial Peat Mine Ban
The Manitoba branch of the Wilderness Committee delivered 830 letters to Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh on...
BC Government Approves Upper Lillooet Hydro Project
Media Release - January 11, 2013 VANCOUVER – Despite wide-ranging opposition from local residents and environmental...
Environmentalists call for UVic to stop investing pension funds in Enbridge
A B.C. environmental group is calling on the University of Victoria to stop investing pension funds in oil companies...
Peat mining strategy to be public within weeks
Environmental group wants wholesale provincial ban The province is close to announcing a strategy on peat mining that...
Environmentalists want UVic pension fund to cut ties with Enbridge
Environmentalists are calling on faculty and other professional staff at the University of Victoria to divest their...
Critics slam University of Victoria for investing pension plan in Enbridge
Environmental activists are urging the University of Victoria to stop investing in what they’re calling “the dirtiest...
University of Victoria Invested in Enbridge
Media Release - January 10, 2013 Wilderness Committee urges “green” university to divest tens of millions of dollars...
Wilderness Committee seeks peat mining ban
A local environmental group is seeking a ban on peat mining in Manitoba. This morning, the Wilderness Committee will...
Hundreds of letters call on Manitoba government to ban peat mining
Media Release - January 9, 2013 Minister Mackintosh’s office to receive letters at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday WINNIPEG -...
Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Forest Conservation
This Friday, join me for a screening of Richard Boyce’s Rainforest: The Limit of Splendour. This award-winning film...
Manitoba Environmental Licencing is Broken
Average Manitoban Not Served by Secrecy and Lack of Information For most Manitobans, the Environmental Licencing...
Looking Ahead: Climate Action in 2013
January 4, 2013 Happy New Year to all of you! 2013 will be full of climate wins – I can feel it! This month the...
Wildlife advocates say more should have been done to protect owls
Photo: Spotted owl habitat logged in 2007 at S & M Creek, located near Pemberton BC The province has undertaken a cull...
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